Improvement in bracelets



C.-E. HAYWARD.

, Bracelets. y N0. 153,219, l Patentedjuly 21,1874.

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THE GRAPHIC C0.PHOT0-L|TH.39&4I PARK PLCEMX UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. HAYW'ARD, OF ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JONATHAN A. BRIGGS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BRACELETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,219, dated July 2l, 1874 application tiled March 11, 1574.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs E. HAYWARD, of Attleborough, of the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bracelets; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the'following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, ot' which- Figure l denotes a top view, Fig. 2 a hori- Zonta-l section, and Fig. 3 a transverse section, of a bracelet made in accordance with my invention.

In each half, H or H', ofsnch bracelet, A denotes the front or external plate or strip of thin metal, upon which the chasing or ornamental. ignre or ornamentation ot the article is usually made, whether by dies, or a groover, or chasing-tools. B is the back part or lini11g7-p1ate of such front A, which, in this case, I make of a thin and narrow strip of metal, and strike or form it at its opposite edges with two gutter-shaped parallel and narrow ribs, a a, the outside edges of such being to rest against and be soldered to the part A. Each lining B, near each extremity ot' it, is formed with a joint incline, b, arranged between the ribs and at their termini, in manner as shown. This formation or" the lining is for creating between it and the front part A a pocket to receive the hingeor fastening of the two halves H H ofthe bracelet, which are hinged together, as shown at h, and provided with a snapcatch, as shown at s.

The mode oi'making the metallic lining composing in part each half of the bracelet, enables it to be made hollow and light, and to be Very strong.

I do not claim a bracelet half made 0f one solid piece of metal, with ribs projecting from its inner surface at its opposite edges. Nor do I claim a bracelet half composed not only of a front strip ot' metal concave transverely, but of a strip of metal soldered to such strip at its edge, and to constitute a lining or backing thereto. Nor do I claim a bracelet made as shown and described in the United States Patent N o. 145,164, in which the back lining, as well as the front strip, is bent or flanged. With my bracelet the cap-strip has no lateral bend or ilange.

Vhat I claim as my invention is 1. The back lining B, provided with the grooved ribs a a, as described and represented, in combination with the unlanged cap or front strip A soldered to it 011 the front, all being as speciiied.

2. The bracelet half-lining B, made with the longitudinal hollow ribs a o and the joint inclines b 11, arranged as shown, and combined with and applied to the external strip A, all

heilig' substantially as specified.

CHARLES E. HAYWARD.

Witnesses:

R.. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW. 

